FLYR Taking Off with $8mil, Goodnight SPH Startup Accelerator, SheSkills for Pakistani Women

Audrey Raj | Angeline Teh

23-Jan-17 12:00

FLYR Taking Off with $8mil, Goodnight SPH Startup Accelerator, SheSkills for Pakistani Women

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In today’s Enterprise Biz Bytes, Audrey Raj and Angeline Teh talk about:

•Travel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million funds for technology that predicts airfare prices by applying artificial intelligence

•Singapore’s largest newspaper publisher started a startup accelerator called SPH Plug and Play, which has now unfortunately been declared dead

•SheSkills is launching a new program in Pakistan to empower women through digital skills bootcamps

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Tags: FLYR, fare locking, AI, Artificial Intelligence, SPH Plug and Play, SheSkills, digital skills bootcamps

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